A1
Transport
Written answers and statements, 13 July 2009
Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport if he will take steps to ensure the installation of separated junctions at the main intersections and roundabouts on the A1 between Alconbury and the A1(M) north of Baldock.
Chris Mole (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Ipswich, Labour)
The A1 trunk road in Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire is identified as a road of regional importance. As such, the priority to be given for separated junctions at the main intersections and roundabouts on the A1 south of Peterborough to the beginning of the A1(M) north of Baldock is initially for the East of England region to consider.
In March 2009 the region submitted advice to Government on public spending priorities for transport, housing and regeneration, economic development and skills as part of the refresh of the Regional Funding Advice (known as RFA2). This includes transport priorities in the region through to 2018-19. The Government expect to respond to the region's advice later this year. However, the region did not include these junctions in their submitted priorities.